Recent work challenges the notion that attracting creative workers to a place is sufficient for
generating local economic growth. In this article, we examine the problem of sustaining …

Using data for US rural counties we examine the how the age profile of migrants from 1990
to 2000 impacts business start-ups in 2000. Depending on the industry classification, we find …

Within the theoretical framework of social capital, we explore how different religious
traditions influence small business activity in US counties. We motivate the analysis by …

Using two alternative metrics of social capital, we explore how community structure
influences the five-year survival rates of businesses started in 2000. Employing a family of …

Infrastructure, agglomeration, product and input markets, fiscal attributes, and labor markets
of local communities influenced food manufacturing location decisions in the lower 48 …

Bivariate probit regression and spatial clustering methods analyze investment activity of
ethanol plants at the county level for the contiguous 48 United States from 2000–2007 …

Elderburbs, defined as old suburban neighborhoods in terms of their 'built environments'
and 'demographic structures', have emerged prominently in academic discussion due to the …

In this application, income and job growth in the eastern United States are explained using a
partial adjustment model with regime switching potential and spatial spillover, or “Smooth …

The scientific method is a deductive process that is responsible for centuries of human
progress. As Popper (1959) explains, the method begins with a set of stylized facts, or facts …

Non-labor income (NLI) is one of the largest and fastest growing sources of income,
constituting more than one-third of personal income in the US West. Given the unprecedent …